1. a home from home (British) also a home away from home (American & Australian)- a place where you feel as comfortable as you do in your own home
2. a home truth - if you tell someone a home truth, you tell them an unpleasant fact, usually something bad about themselves (usually plural)
3. a woman's place is in the home - Prov. Women should remain in the home, doing housework and raising children. (This notion is generally regarded as old-fashioned.)
4. an Englishman's home is his castle - something that you say which means that British people believe they should be able to control what happens in their own homes, and that no one else should tell them what to do there
5. at home - at or in one's dwelling
6. at home with someone or something - 1. Lit. in one's home with someone or something. She's at home with her mother. Bob's not alone. He's at home with the cats. 2. Fig. comfortable with someone or something; comfortable doing something. Tom is very much at home with my parents. Mary seems to be at home with her job.
7. be at home - 1. if someone is at home in a situation, they feel confident and happy because it is familiar to them and they know how to deal with it (often + in ) 2. if something or someone is at home somewhere, they are suitable for that place and look right in it
8. be close to home - if a subject is close to home, it affects you in a personal way, and it can upset you if someone says something unpleasant about it His comments about working mothers were a bit close to home for me.
9. be home and dry (mainly British) also be home and hosed (Australian) - to have completed something successfully I've just got one more report to write and I'll be home and dry.
10. be home free (American & Australian) - to be certain to succeed at something because you have finished the most difficult part of it
11. be nothing much to write home about also not much to write home about - to not be especially good or exciting The food was OK, but nothing to write home about.
12. bring something home (to somebody) - to make something more clearly understood Her visit to the war memorial brought home to her the suffering the war had caused. : usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant
13. bring home the bacon - Fig. to earn a salary; to bring home money earned at a job. I've got to get to work if I'm going to bring home the bacon.
14. bring something home to smb - 1. Lit. to return home with a gift for someone. 2. Fig. to cause someone to realize something. My weakness was brought home to me by the heavy work I had been assigned to do.
15. charity begins at home - Prov. You should take care of family and people close to you before you worry about helping others. I don't think our church should worry so much about a foreign relief fund when there are people in need right here in our city. Charity begins at home.
16. chickens come home to roost - Prov. You have to face the consequences of your mistakes or bad deeds. Jill: Emily found out that I said she was incompetent, and now she won't recommend me for that job. Jane: The chickens have come home to roost, I see.
17. close to home - Fig. affecting one personally and intimately. Her remarks were a bit too close to home. I took her review as a personal insult.
18. come in and make yourself at home - Please come into my home and make yourself comfortable.
19. down-home (American) - down-home things are simple and typical of life in the countryside (always before noun) It's a diner with down-home American cooking where you can take all the family.
20. drive something home(to someone) -Fig. to emphasize an important point about something (to someone). The teacher repeated the point three times just to drive it home.
21. East, west, home's best. and East or west, home is best -Prov. Home is the best place to be no matter where it is.
22. eat someone out of house and home - Fig. to eat everything that someone has in the house.
23. go home in a box - Sl. to be shipped home dead. (Often said in exaggeration.) Hey, I'm too young to go home in a box.
24. go home to mama - to give up something-such as a marriage-and return to one's mother's home. I've had it. I'm going home to mama.
25. (I've) got to go home and get my beauty sleep - Fig. a phrase announcing one's need to depart because it is late. (See also (I) have to shove off for other possible variations.) Sue: Leaving so early? John: I've got to go home and get my beauty sleep.
26. hammer something home - Fig. to try extremely hard to make someone understand or realize something. I tried to hammer home to Anne the fact that she would have to get a job.
27. hearth and home (literary) - your family and home
28. hit a home run - to succeed with something We felt our band hit a home run that night – it was the best performance we ever gave.
29. hit home and strike home - Fig. to really make sense; [for a comment] to make a very good point. Mary's criticism of my clothes hit home, so I changed.
30. hit one where one lives and hit one close to home - Fig. to affect one personally and intimately. Her comments really hit me where I live.
31. home free - safe and without problems.
32. home in (on someone or something) - Fig. to aim directly at someone or something. She came into the room and homed in on the chocolate cake.
33. Home is where the heart is - Prov. Your home is whatever place you long to be.
34. home on (to something) Fig. to aim directly at something; to fix some type of receiver on a signal source. The navigator homed onto the radio beam from the airport.
35. keep the home fires burning - Fig. to keep things going at one's home or other central location. (From a World War I song.) My uncle kept the home fires burning when my sister and I went to school.
36. longest way round is the shortest way home and longest way round is the nearest way home - Prov. It may seem as if it will take too long to do something carefully and according to directions, but in fact it will take less time than doing something carelessly, because you will not have to fix it afterwards. I would advise you to read the instructions before trying to use your new stereo. It takes some time, but the longest way round is the nearest way home.
37. make yourself at home - to behave in a relaxed way in a place, as if it was your own home (often an order) Sit down and make yourself at home while I make some coffee.
38. man's home is his castle -Prov. Cliché One can do whatever one wants to in one's own home. Don't tell me not to go around the house in my underwear. A man's home is his castle.
39. Men make houses, women make homes - Prov. Men are often the ones who build or acquire houses for their families, but women provide the things that make a house into a home.
40. money from home - 1. easily gotten money. (Underworld.) There is nothing to a simple con job like this. It's money from home. 2. something as welcome as long-awaited money from home. This cool drink is money from home right now. .
41. see someone home - to accompany someone home. Bill agreed to see his aunt home after the movie.
42. strike home - to be understood completely and have a strong effect hit home Her tearful expression made it clear that his nasty remarks had struck home.
43. the home straight (British & Australian) - the last part of a long or difficult activity We can't give up now we're on the home straight.
44. the lights are on but nobody's/no-one's home. (humorous) - something that you say when you think someone is stupid, or when someone does not react because they are thinking about something else It's no good expecting John to say anything. The lights are on but no-one's home.
45. there's no place like home - Prov. Cliché Home is the most satisfying place to be
46. there's nobody home - There are no brains in someone's head. There's lots of goodwill in that head, but there's nobody home.
47. (un)til the cows come home - Rur. until the last; until very late. (Referring to the end of the day, when the cows come home to be fed and milked.) We were having so much fun that we decided to stay at the party until the cows camehome.
48. what's something when it's at home? (British & Australian informal) also Who's somebody when he's/she's at home? (British & Australian informal) - something that you say when you want to know what something is or who someone is Feng shui? What's that when it's at home?Who's Mariella Frostrup when she's at home?
49. skeleton in the closet - it means you are hiding a shocking secret about yourself
50. to show someone the door - ask someone to leave your house
51. to be a doormat - describes someone who doesn’t stand up for himself